New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Company Collection
Scope and Content
This collection contains journal entries, bills of lading, vouchers, receipts, invoices, and correspondence of several southern New England railroads. The topics document general railroad concerns, including locomotive and freight car parts and repairs, per diem costs on cars and rails, and bridge building.
Dates
- undated, 1815-1907
Access
The collection is open and available for research.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish from these Records must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.
History
The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the railroad predominant railroad in the region from 1872, when it was established through the merger of the New York and New Haven Railroad and the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, to 1969, when it was absorbed into Penn Central.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.
Arrangement
Series I: Materials related to Julius Wadsworth, (1826-1886), contains documents, mostly correspondence related to Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads. The correspondence is primarly about railroads and financing.
Series II: Predecessor Companies (1815-1907) focuses almost exclusively on railroads that merged, at various times, into the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The collection holds documents related to the following railroads: Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; Boston and New York Airline Railroad; Central New England Railway; Charles River Railroad; Chicago and Evanston Railroad; Connecticut River Railroad; Hartford and New Haven Railroad; Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill Railroad ; Housatonic Railroad; Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; Naugatuck Railroad; New Haven and Derby Railroad; New Haven and Northern Railroad; New Haven and Northampton Company; New York and New England Railroad; New York and New Haven Railroad; New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; Norfolk County Railroad; Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. Documents related to Charles F. Pond can be found in the Hartford and New Haven Railroad folders.
Acquisition Information
The collection contains donated and purchased materials acquired between 1990 and 1999.
- Administrative records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Connecticut (state) Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Financial records Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Railroads Subject Source: Fast
- Title
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Predecessor Companies Collection
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Archives & Special Collections staff
- Date
- 2006 November
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
University of Connecticut Library
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524
archives@uconn.edu
